Arts Quotes - page 3

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline. (Brandon Lee)
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. View quote
Eugenio Montale
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. View quote
Eugenio Montale
When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me "Miss Man." It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous. View quote
Ronda Rousey
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. View quote
Carol P. Christ
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. View quote
Gavin Newsom
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. View quote
Gavin Newsom
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce. View quote
Gavin Newsom
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. View quote
Isaac Hayes
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. View quote
Ken Burns
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. (Lukas Foss)
I'm a liberal arts junkie. View quote
Mary Chapin Carpenter
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children. View quote
Phil Lesh
Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life. View quote
Robert Mondavi
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. View quote
Yahoo Serious
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty. View quote
Daniel Webster
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. View quote
James Madison
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. (Sinclair Lewis)
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. View quote
Thomas Carlyle